Sun Yat-sen Quotes
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.
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I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.
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As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
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A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.
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The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
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While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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I did the whole rock and roll thing that's coming up. I think you're going to enjoy that! 'Burt Rocks', it's called. I like that he's a dreamer; I like how positive he is. There's a lot of things I think I can learn from Burt.
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'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little. But whatever agenda I have gets buried in a work this great. If you're being honest, you realize that, as an artist, you're not a policy maker.
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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
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For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.
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The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.
